Monday, January 6, 2014

Cousins

A few different posts are needed to capture the last few weeks properly; we’ll start here, do one on New Orleans, and then probably an Iphone photo dump post to close it out.

The pictures, and video, of the cousins all come from the sleepover of 2013.  The pictures and video in the van are from the trip back to our rental house after watching football at Buffalo Wild Wings (Mom ducked into Target for a few items; Kevin was with Aunt Melissa and Ian and avoided the chaos in the back of the van).  They didn’t realize I was taping for quite some time…most of the activity in the back is picture-taking on Matthew’s Itouch….I have to go and find that device and download what I believe are half-a-million selfies and see if there’s anything decent there.

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(if you click on this picture there is about 3 minutes of giggling video from the back of the van.  There is nothing spectacular or earth-shattering in the video…other than the giggling over whatever the heck they are doing)

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(After the sleepover, and breakfast, Suzanne and I took everyone down to the beach…and while we expected some dipping of toes, it turned into almost full immersion pretty quickly.  I had to go and look; air temperature was about 57 degrees, water temp was about 65 degrees)

again, clicking on the picture gets you about 90 seconds of cousins running around)

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(Merissa and Matthew….before full immersion began)

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(Matthew, somewhat predictably, was the one who started the move through the water out to the second sand bar and deeper waves….and started the move towards total soakings)

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(Cathleen joined Matthew out there first…Cpher came back to help Merissa out there)

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(I think these pictures were in chronological order but this one makes me wonder….must be quite a bit later)